ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,986, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Antenna device and antenna module" was invented by Kenichi Tezuka (Tokyo), Yasuharu Miyauchi (Tokyo), Yousuke Futamata (Tokyo) and Misaki Tabata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes: a dielectric layer; radiation conductors and a ground conductor disposed at the dielectric layer; and side surface conductors in which a plurality of conductor patterns are laminated, the side surface conductors are disposed on an outer side of the ground conductors in a first direction in plan view seen from a normal direction of the radiation conductors, and the dim...